NRS 197.010Bribery of executive or administrative officer.A person who gives, offers or promises,
directly or indirectly, any compensation, gratuity or reward to any executive
or administrative officer of the State, with the intent to influence the
officer with respect to any act, decision, vote, opinion or other proceeding,
as such officer, is guilty of a category C felony and shall be punished as
provided in NRS 193.130.

NRS 197.020Bribery of other public officers.A
person who gives, offers or promises, directly or indirectly, any compensation,
gratuity or reward to a person executing any of the functions of a public
officer other than as specified in NRS 197.010, 199.010 and 218A.960, with the intent to influence
the person with respect to any act, decision, vote or other proceeding in the
exercise of his or her powers or functions, is guilty of a category C felony
and shall be punished as provided in NRS
193.130.

NRS 197.030Asking or receiving bribe by executive or administrative
officer.An executive or
administrative officer or person elected or appointed to an executive or
administrative office who asks or receives, directly or indirectly, any
compensation, gratuity or reward, or any promise thereof, upon an agreement or
understanding that his or her vote, opinion or action upon any matter then
pending, or which may by law be brought before him or her in an official
capacity, will be influenced thereby, is guilty of a category C felony and
shall be punished as provided in NRS
193.130.

NRS 197.040Asking or receiving bribe by public officer or employee.A person who executes any of the functions of
a public office not specified in NRS 197.030, 199.020 or 218A.965, and a person employed by or
acting for the State or for any public officer in the business of the State,
who asks or receives, directly or indirectly, any compensation, gratuity or
reward, or any promise thereof, upon an agreement or understanding that his or
her vote, opinion, judgment, action, decision or other official proceeding will
be influenced thereby, or that he or she will do or omit any act or proceeding
or in any way neglect or violate any official duty, is guilty of a category C
felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS
193.130.

1. It is unlawful for any state, county or
municipal officer to offer or agree to appoint, or for any person whatever to
offer to procure, or to offer to aid in procuring, the appointment of any
deputy officer or attache of the state, county or municipal government of this
state, for any consideration contemplating any division or rebate of the salary
of the deputy or attache during his or her term of office, or for any monetary
or other valuable consideration whatsoever, or, after such an appointment is
made, to receive or to accept any portion of the salary of the deputy or
attache, or to receive any money or other valuable reward whatsoever, as a consideration
for retaining the deputy or attache, or as a consideration for procuring, or
for aid in obtaining the procuring of, the retention of the deputy or attache
in any position to which the deputy or attache may be or has been appointed, or
for any purpose whatsoever except in payment of a bona fide debt as provided in
NRS 197.070.

2. A person who violates any of the
provisions of subsection 1 commits bribery which is a category D felony and
shall be punished as provided in NRS
193.130.

1. It is unlawful for any deputy officer
or attache of the state, county or municipal government of this state to
rebate, refund, pay or divide, to or with his or her principal or to or with
any person whatever, any part or portion of his or her salary or compensation
now fixed, or that may hereafter be fixed or established, by law, as a
consideration either for the making or for the procuring of such an
appointment, or for aid in procuring the same, or for the retention, or for the
procuring or aid in procuring the retention, of such an appointment as deputy
or attache, or to make any division or payment out of his or her salary to this
end, except in payment of a bona fide debt as provided in NRS 197.070.

2. A person who violates any of the
provisions of subsection 1 commits bribery which is a category D felony and
shall be punished as provided in NRS
193.130.

NRS 197.070Payment of bona fide debt by deputy or attache.Nothing in NRS 197.050
and 197.060 shall be construed to relieve any
deputy officer or attache from the payment of a bona fide debt, contracted for
value received, for which a civil action would lie in a court of law, or to
prevent such deputy officer or attache from paying the same out of his or her
salary.

[1911 C&P § 50; RL § 6315; NCL § 9999]

NRS 197.080Offering reward for appointment.Every
person who shall give, offer or promise, directly or indirectly, any
compensation, gratuity or reward, in consideration that the person or another
person shall be appointed to a public office or to a clerkship, deputation or
other subordinate position in such office, or that the person or any other
person shall be permitted to exercise, perform or discharge any prerogative or
duty or receive any emolument of such office, shall be guilty of a gross
misdemeanor.

[1911 C&P § 52; RL § 6317; NCL § 10001]

NRS 197.090Interfering with public officer.Except
under circumstances where a greater penalty is provided in NRS 200.481, any person who, by means of
any threat, force or violence, attempts to deter or prevent any executive or
administrative officer from performing any duty imposed upon the officer by
law, or who knowingly resists by force or violence any executive or
administrative officer in the performance of the officer’s duty, is guilty of a
gross misdemeanor.

[1911 C&P § 64; RL § 6329; NCL § 10013]—(NRS A
1981, 11)

NRS 197.100Influencing public officer.

1. Every person who shall ask or receive
any compensation, gratuity or reward, or any promise thereof:

(a) Upon the representation that the person can,
directly or indirectly, or in consideration that the person shall, or shall
attempt to, directly or indirectly, influence any public officer, whether
executive, administrative, judicial or legislative, to refuse, neglect, or
defer the performance of any official duty;

(b) The right to retain or receive which shall be
conditioned that such person shall, directly or indirectly, successfully
influence by any means whatever any executive, administrative or legislative
officer, in respect to any act, decision, vote, opinion or other proceeding, as
such officer; or

(c) Upon the representation that the person can,
directly or indirectly, or in consideration that the person shall, or shall
attempt to, directly or indirectly, influence any public officer, whether
executive, administrative, judicial or legislative, in respect to any act,
decision, vote, opinion or other proceeding, as such officer, unless it be
clearly understood and agreed in good faith between the parties thereto, on
both sides, that no means or influence shall be employed except explanation and
argument upon the merits,

Ę shall be
guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

2. In any prosecution under paragraph (c)
of subsection 1, evidence of the means actually employed to influence such
officer shall be admitted as proof of the means originally contemplated by the
defendant.

[1911 C&P § 65; RL § 6330; NCL § 10014]

NRS 197.110Misconduct of public officer.Every
public officer who:

1. Asks or receives, directly or
indirectly, any compensation, gratuity or reward, or promise thereof, for
omitting or deferring the performance of any official duty or for any official
service which has not been actually rendered, except in case of charges for
prospective costs or fees demandable in advance in a case allowed by law; or

2. Employs or uses any person, money or
property under the public officer’s official control or direction, or in the
public officer’s official custody, for the private benefit or gain of the
public officer or another,

Ę is guilty of
a category E felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.

NRS 197.120False impersonation of public officer; intrusion into and
refusal to surrender public office.Every
person who shall falsely personate or represent any public officer, or who
shall willfully intrude into a public office to which the person has not been
duly elected or appointed, or who shall willfully exercise any of the functions
or perform any of the duties of such officer, without having duly qualified
therefor, as required by law, or who, having been an executive or
administrative officer, shall willfully exercise any of the functions of office
after his or her right to do so has ceased, or wrongfully refuse to surrender
the official seal or any books or papers appertaining to such office, upon the
demand of his or her lawful successor, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

[1911 C&P § 67; RL § 6332; NCL § 10016]

NRS 197.130False report by public officer.Every
public officer who shall knowingly make any false or misleading statement in
any official report or statement, under circumstances not otherwise prohibited
by law, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

[1911 C&P § 84; RL § 6349; NCL § 10033]

NRS 197.140Public officer making false certificate.Every public officer who, being authorized by
law to make or give a certificate or other writing, shall knowingly make and
deliver as true such a certificate or writing containing any statement which
the public officer knows to be false, in a case where the punishment thereof is
not expressly prescribed by law, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

[1911 C&P § 110; RL § 6375; NCL § 10059]

NRS 197.150Falsely auditing or paying claim.A
public officer, or person holding or discharging the duties of any public
office or place of trust under the State or in any county, town or city, a part
of whose duty it is to audit, allow or pay, or take part in auditing, allowing
or paying claims or demands upon the State or a county, town or city, who
knowingly audits, allows or pays, or directly or indirectly consents to or in
any way connives in the audit, allowance or payment of any claim or demand
against the State, county, town or city, which is false or fraudulent or
contains any charge, item or claim which is false or fraudulent, shall be
punished:

1. Where the amount of the false or
fraudulent charge, claim, item or demand is $650 or more, for a category D
felony as provided in NRS 193.130. In
addition to any other penalty, the court shall order the person to pay
restitution.

2. Where the amount of the fraudulent
charge, claim, item or demand is less than $650, for a misdemeanor.

NRS 197.160Fraudulently presenting claim to public officer.Every person who, with the intent to defraud,
shall knowingly present for audit, allowance or payment to any officer or board
of the State or of any county, city, town, school or other district authorized
to audit, allow or pay bills, claims or charges, any false or fraudulent claim,
account, writing or voucher or any bill, account or demand containing false or
fraudulent charges, items or claims, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

[1911 C&P § 450; RL § 6715; NCL § 10403]—(NRS A
1965, 361)

NRS 197.170Extortion by public officer or employee.A public officer or employee who:

1. Asks, receives or agrees to receive a
fee or other compensation for official service or employment either:

(a) In excess of the fee or compensation allowed
by statute therefor; or

(b) Where a fee or compensation is not allowed by
statute therefor; or

2. Requests money, property or anything of
value which is not authorized by law, from any person regulated by the public
officer or employee, and in a manner which would cause a reasonable person to
be intimidated into complying with the request to avoid the risk of adverse
action by the public officer or employee,

Ę commits
extortion which is a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130. In addition to any other
penalty, the court shall order the person to pay restitution.

NRS 197.180Wrongful exercise of official power.Any
person who willfully takes upon himself or herself to exercise or officiate in
any office or place of another, without being lawfully authorized thereto, is
guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

[1911 C&P § 539; RL § 6804; NCL § 10485]—(NRS A
1967, 462)

NRS 197.190Obstructing public officer.Every
person who, after due notice, shall refuse or neglect to make or furnish any
statement, report or information lawfully required of the person by any public
officer, or who, in such statement, report or information shall make any
willfully untrue, misleading or exaggerated statement, or who shall willfully
hinder, delay or obstruct any public officer in the discharge of official
powers or duties, shall, where no other provision of law applies, be guilty of
a misdemeanor.

[1911 C&P § 540; RL § 6805; NCL § 10486]

NRS 197.200Oppression under color of office.

1. An officer, or a person pretending to
be an officer, who unlawfully and maliciously, under pretense or color of
official authority:

(a) Arrests or detains a person against the
person’s will;

(b) Seizes or levies upon another’s property;

(c) Dispossesses another of any lands or
tenements; or

(d) Does any act whereby the person, property or
rights of another person are injured,

Ę commits
oppression.

2. An officer or person committing
oppression shall be punished:

(a) Where physical force or the immediate threat
of physical force is used, for a category D felony as provided in NRS 193.130.

(b) Where no physical force or immediate threat
of physical force is used, for a gross misdemeanor.

NRS 197.210Fraudulent appropriation of property.An
officer who fraudulently appropriates to his or her own use or to the use of
another person, or secretes with the intent to appropriate to such a use, any
money, evidence of debt or other property entrusted to the officer by virtue of
his or her office, shall be punished:

1. Where the amount of the money or the
actual value of the property fraudulently appropriated or secreted with the
intent to appropriate is $650 or more, for a category D felony as provided in NRS 193.130. In addition to any other
penalty, the court shall order the person to pay restitution.

2. Where the amount of the money or the
actual value of the property fraudulently appropriated or secreted with the
intent to appropriate is less than $650, for a misdemeanor.

NRS 197.220Other violations by officers.Every
public officer or other person who shall willfully disobey any provision of law
regulating his or her official conduct in cases for which no other punishment
is provided shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

[1911 C&P § 563; RL § 6828; NCL § 10508]

NRS 197.230Conviction of public officer forfeits trust.The conviction of a public officer of any
felony or malfeasance in office shall entail, in addition to such other penalty
as may be imposed, the forfeiture of his or her office, and shall disqualify
the public officer from ever afterward holding any public office in this State.